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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
  • 2. I try to write lyrics so that they won't age which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
  • 3. One of the great challenges of our age in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian like a classic clown but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.
  • 2. If it's an amazing role I'll do anything.
  • 3. So now cut to ten years later and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
  • 2. I have some anger issues.
  • 3. Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
  • 2. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
  • 3. You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
  • 2. I love a lot of things and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do whether it be gardening or architecture or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
  • 3. The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples no ambitions.
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